Dr Karen Le Marchand is a Consultant Psychologist and has worked at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital since 2012.

She is the clinical lead for chronic pain across the Black Country Partnership and Dudley Group of Hospitals Foundation Trusts and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.

She qualified as a Chartered Psychologist from Wolverhampton University in 2002 and specialises in the psychological management of physical health conditions, she currently works clinically in chronic pain and general medicine, with a specialist interest in chronic pain. She is trained in a number of psychological approaches and has a strong interest in research with many published papers in regard to the psychological management of chronic pain.